Gideon Walter
Managing Director & Senior Partner
New Jersey
Gideon Walter leads the North America Operations practice of Boston Consulting Group. He is a member of BCG’s Health Care, Operations, Consumer, and Marketing, Sales & Pricing practices. He is also the firm’s supply chain topic leader for North America.
Since joining BCG in 2005, Gideon has focused on large-scale transformations, primarily in strategy, operations, supply chain, and organization and culture. He has led global supply chain transformations and reorganizations in biopharma, created operational-excellence programs for manufacturing in pharmaceuticals, and driven supply chain optimization in fast-moving consumer goods.
Gideon has also worked with clients across a wide range of industries on integrated supply-planning programs; strategy and implementation of enterprise resource planning; standardization of business processes; and supply chain, distribution, and logistics.
Before joining BCG, Gideon was a vice president and general-merchandise manager for Delia's, a US multichannel retailer.
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